Subject: Re: [xsl] Dynamic pipelining in XSLT 2.0 w/ Saxon extensions From: "M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:14:25 -0600 |
I think that specifying such an extension falls exactly into the subject area of EXSLT, unfortunately until no one has proposed a specification.
--- On 6/19/07, M. David Peterson <m.david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:25:40 -0600, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Once we have an implementation of a library of XSLT functions, one would simply use the compiled version of FXSL or whatever else.
Can you expand what you mean by this? Are you referring to a stand-alone FXSL processor/library (that's how I immediately interpreted this, so thought it best to clarify)
Sure. The compiling XSLT processors that I am aware of compile a primary stylesheet with all included and imported stylesheets into a single executable module. This module is then used to perform a definite, specific transformation on any xml source document we want to apply the transformation to.
I have been discussing (in this list, I think) the high value of being able to compile stylesheets that are not primary (such as containing only xsl functions). Then there should be a standard mechanism for any primary stylesheet to (link to) use the so compiled library of xsl functions.
Dr. Kay did express his opinion that implementing this for XSLT (just following what we have for XQuery) shouldn't be difficult.
Certainly, an extension (element or attribute) will be necessary to declare local externals to export and to needed externals to import from other modules.
I think that specifying such an extension falls exactly into the subject area of EXSLT, unfortunately until no one has proposed a specification.
-- Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev ---
-- /M:D
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